Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

UNBELIEVABLE: 42 - The Untold Story

Luigi Mangione is Reportedly Exchanging Letters With a MAGA Podcaster Patrick Bet-David From Prison

Luigi Mangione is reportedly exchanging letters with podcaster Patrick Bet-David from prison, with the correspondence touching on books, public backlash, and personal reflection.

International Business Times UK

Streak of deaths leaves Chicago jail baffled until guards realize prisoners are overdosing on books

A whole new meaning to “Books can be dangerous.”

We Got This Covered

Update in case of journalist imprisoned in Iran for three months

A Japanese national, detained in Iran since January, has been released on bail. Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara said the release was verified on Monday, with Japan now pressing Iranian authorities for a full release of the individual, believed to be a journalist for Japan’s public broadcaster, NHK. The Committee…

The Independent UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Indian-origin Subu Vedam avoids deportation after 40 years in prison for murder conviction, judge says he 'has grown as a person'

After spending more than four decades in prison and consistently avoiding deportation for a murder conviction that was later overturned, Indian-origin Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam has won a crucial legal battle to remain in the United States.

The Times of India

Deaths At Chicago Prison Show That Soaked Papers Are A Previously Unheard Form of Drug Smuggling: Report

A string of deaths at Chicago's Cook County Jail were found to be tied to an unlikely source: paper.

International Business Times

Jeffrey Epstein’s billionaire pal created a shockingly detailed escape plan to avoid the law as the predator left prison

Epstein’s friends never fail to stun.

We Got This Covered

From serving the nation to serving a sentence

New Flinders University research warns many veterans and their families are being failed long after their service ends.

AAP

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

‘Nothing about this makes any sense’: CA Governor Newsom flabbergasted by Trump’s ridiculous ask for ‘fiscal’ blackhole Alcatraz

New prisons over daycares!

We Got This Covered

Trump requests $152m funding to restore Alcatraz as prison

Budget proposal released on Friday outlines president’s desire to revive former federal prison in San Francisco Bay

The Guardian - US

Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal

Brotherly crooks, dueling bourbons, and a law from 1785.

Reason

What to know about the controversial practice of ‘orgasmic meditation’

The practice touted by Nicole Daedone combined spirituality, mindfulness and sexuality. Then came the controversy – and prison sentence

The Guardian - US

How the number of young people facing lengthy prison sentences almost doubled in a decade

IN FULL

The Independent UK

Number of young adults facing life behind bars or indeterminate sentences almost doubles in a decade

Exclusive: Increasing numbers of 18-20-year-olds are being handed long-term sentences which are often equal to or longer than their age, a report warns

The Independent UK

How ‘blind panic’ exposed prison inmates and staff to dangerous radon gas

IN FULL

The Independent UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Independent UK

How the Ministry of Justice knowingly exposed hundreds to cancer-causing gas in Dartmoor prison

SPECIAL REPORT: Exclusive: In the midst of a growing prison overcrowding crisis, men were piled into HMP Dartmoor. Officials had been warned parts of the ageing Victorian prison were filled with dangerous levels of a toxic gas linked to 1,100 lung cancer deaths each year. But in its desperate scramble…

The Guardian - AU

‘I will not yield’: Taiwan convulsed by 17-year prison sentence for populist opposition figure

The opposition Taiwan People’s party stands by founder Ko Wen-je despite sentence, alleging prosecutors were pressured by ruling DPP party

Evening Standard

Corrupt prison guard and gang jailed over smuggling operation

The officer has been jailed for four and a half years after helping smuggle drugs, phones and USB sticks into a London jail

The Independent UK

Judge blocks deportation of man wrongfully convicted of murder

An Indian citizen, Subramanyam Vedam, may be released from ICE custody after a judge cleared the way, following the overturning of his Pennsylvania murder conviction after four decades in prison.

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Bored Panda

Single Gesture Could Land Tourist, 29, In Prison For Years Under Anti-Racism Laws

“It was an emotional reaction. I never imagined the gravity of it all," said lawyer Agostina Páez, charged with racial defamation.

The Independent UK

Leading Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh detained in Tehran

Sotoudeh, 64, is renowned for defending activists, opposition politicians, and women prosecuted for removing their headscarves

The Independent UK

Prolific Easter egg thief who was found by police ‘cowering inside base of divan bed’ jailed

Daniel Jones, 38, was sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment at Chelmsford Crown Court

Euronews

German artist sentenced to prison by Russian court for carnival display mocking Putin

Jacques Tilly has been designing and building floats for Düsseldorf’s Carnival parade, one of Germany’s best-known, since 1984.

The Independent UK

Rapper Pooh Shiesty and his father arrested after FBI raids family home

Rapper previously served three years in prison and was released last October

The Independent UK

FBI raids rapper Pooh Shiesty’s family home in Memphis months after prison release

Memphis rapper served three years in prison after pleading guilty to a firearms conspiracy charge in 2022

The Guardian - UK

‘Everyone is thinking about oil prices’: is Iran using the war to hide a surge in executions?

Regime has long used the death penalty to suppress dissent but now appears to be withholding information on the killing of hundreds of prisoners, say rights groups

1 … 41 42 43 44

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Amnesty International

the Ministry of Justice

253 stories

DMV

238 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.